One helping of Bravado coming up...

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:48 am

*calls Indiana Jones to resolve this*

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:52 am

Tell you what... I'll buy you a hat if you don't put it in a museam. A realy big one!

DracoDei · Post by **DracoDei** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:56 am

My good beings, you would appear to not be sufficiently considering the ways of creative compromise. Ponder the following senario and see if it, or some variation of it, might be mutually satisfactory:

Quentin asks to keep the sword. The artificers say yes.
Quentin donates it to a museum, on the condition that regardless of whether admission is charged, or whether it is open any given week (down for maintainence or whatever), Colin has free (supervised) access any day he wants, and that upon reaching an appropriate age Colin will have the option of assuming curatorship of said exhibit at a reasonable salary (which would probably be a pitance, since I would think it would be a part time job at best).

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:57 am

Anthony Lion wrote:
Sharuuk wrote:#2....SOMEBODY needs to retrieve the sword he dropped. Why? So he can give it to Colin as a gift.
But... it's not his to give away.
(It's a loaner from the hall of Artificers)

Very true.....but given the circumstances, I doubt seriously if the Artificers would object. If Quentyn told Master Irons what he wanted to do, I have no doubt that Irons would back him.

But you did make a very valid point.

Shaaruuk

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:58 am

*has been squished by logic*.... thats not the point!

Bolo Unit_BRL of the Line · Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:01 am

Astral wrote:And this kit says it dosn't! *grabs coonu plushie and holds him up at solidus in a threataning manner*

A good move.
Really.

At least, until Dr. Henrey Jones Jr., known to most as hero archeologist Indiana Jones, draws forth his Webley Mk. IV .455 revolver and his trademark bullwhip, that is. Then it's about as good as holding a newspaper in front of you.

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:12 am

The JAM wrote:[...unWARP!!!]

Good evening.

They may be surface wounds, but he has a HEAP of surface wounds. That, in the medical profession (so I hear), is generally known as Not A Good Thing.

Also, lying on the floor with OPEN WOUNDS, when who-knows-what has been on that floor, is also Not A Good Thing.

Having open wounds for a Long Time (how long was he unconscious?) is also considered Not A Good Thing.

Somebody PLEASE get him to a hospital!! (or a reasonable facsimile thereof)

All good points JAM.....but the rainwater would help to both cleanse the wounds and aid in surface vascular constriction (cold water) to staunch the blood flow.

Call me a romantic (riiiiight) but I can visualize Quentyn just standing in the rain with his face upturned letting it wash the blood off and just enjoying the fact that he's out of the tunnels and alive......a little rat-gnawed and ragged around the edges maybe.....but alive and victorious.

And I like the notched right ear.....gives 'im that much more character!!

Shaaruuk

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:24 am

Minor point I just realized......panel #5 Quentyn says "Daylight, a manhole". This is a storm that's going on in the middle of the night isn't it?

And he's not going to be able to see much sky at this particular time.

Shaaruuk

Bolo Unit_BRL of the Line · Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:36 am

When you've been a tunnel blacker than the Earl of Hell's riding boots, a open manhole with the lights of the street (with the shadows gone, the drain on the local lux lines are gone as well) could strike you as sunlight.

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:40 am

Bolo Unit_BRL of the Line wrote:
Astral wrote:And this kit says it dosn't! *grabs coonu plushie and holds him up at solidus in a threataning manner*
A good move.
Really.

At least, until Dr. Henrey Jones Jr., known to most as hero archeologist Indiana Jones, draws forth his Webley Mk. IV .455 revolver and his trademark bullwhip, that is. Then it's about as good as holding a newspaper in front of you.

What he said

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:42 am

Bolo Unit_BRL of the Line wrote:When you've been a tunnel blacker than the Earl of Hell's riding boots, a open manhole with the lights of the street (with the shadows gone, the drain on the local lux lines are gone as well) could strike you as sunlight.

Indeed any kind of light now would be daylight,

Mwalimu · Post by **Mwalimu** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:08 am

I also had to wonder, if it's pouring rain, why didn't we see more water down below? I can only assume that the network of tunnels Quentyn and Squidge are navigating are separate from the storm sewers. After all, the underground lab they just came from has been there through countless storms and does not appear to have incurred any flood damage.

Others have noted that Quentyn's forelock is now larger, and that he seems to have fared better psychologically than he did after the Gragum incident. But did you notice we never get a good look at his right eye, which seems to be closed and bloody?

Bolo Unit_BRL of the Line · Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:19 am

Judging from the blood above his eye, I'd say that his eye is closed because blood from a scalp wound (which are notorious for bleeding in prodigous amounts) has covered and temporaraly blinded it. Fear not, I do not think he has lost or will lose the sight of his right eye.

Squirrelly61104 · Post by **Squirrelly61104** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:33 am

Yeshu... I so want to see the sky...

Having spent four years active duty on subs, I can comprehend that feeling all too well.
As for physical danger from his injuries, alone they probably wouldn't have been too dangerous, but lying on a rock floor in an underground room would have been fatal in his condition.
Since his people live in those tunnels, that knowledge is probably the equivelant of basic first aid for Squidge, which is why a creature with such a limited intellect understood the need for Quentyn to get moving.

Came back for... Squidges ring

Suure ya did.
Looks like Squidge may be the first bogey to discover heroism. Truly, the King Under the Sewer!
Wonder if he'll also get to learn the first rule of heroes: No good deed ever goes unpunished.

Sehvekah · Post by **Sehvekah** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:33 am

It might just be streetlights, but given the grey half-light of the background, and the fact that we don't kow how long Quentyn was down there, it could very well be actual daylight(or at least what little is making it's way through the clouds).

As for his eye, I agree it's just a scalp wound above it. Checked the strips for the 13th and 14th again just to be sure. In the 13th you can see he's still got his eye when he kills the rat king as well as when he recives the wound in the pannel dicrectly above that one, and in the 14th we see the wound's been bleeding while he was out. He might need a stitch or two in about 50 diffrent places after this, but he's alive and intact.

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:40 am

He has both eyes intace, just icky blood all over, a week of bed rest and a few stitches and he will be as good as new.

Kerry Skydancer · Post by **Kerry Skydancer** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:19 am

mwalimu wrote:I also had to wonder, if it's pouring rain, why didn't we see more water down below? I can only assume that the network of tunnels Quentyn and Squidge are navigating are separate from the storm sewers. After all, the underground lab they just came from has been there through countless storms and does not appear to have incurred any flood damage.

Others have noted that Quentyn's forelock is now larger, and that he seems to have fared better psychologically than he did after the Gragum incident. But did you notice we never get a good look at his right eye, which seems to be closed and bloody?

The tunnels are separate from the storm drainage system, that was established when Quentyn first went underground. I'm sure Beither would've set up shop somewhere relatively dry, after all.

I'm wondering more how it stays sealed against water - it's likely below the water table - but with the bogeys and brownies down there to do maintenance, that question might be answerable as well. They don't have to be very bright to figure out that keeping the water out is a Good Idea.

As to the forelock - the stag was back again. Whatever it is (Guardian Angel? Chief of Mission for God in this universe? Special Agent, Divine Branch?) it could've given him a bit of a boost before it faded out.

The eye's probably swollen shut, is all. Both eyes were fine when he took out the Rat King, but he'd been badly chewed and bitten. Swelling isn't instantaneous, and he'll look even worse than he does now before he's healed up completely.

Mad Mike · Post by **Mad Mike** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:13 pm

Y'know, given the nature of the tunnels that Quentyn has been strolling through, and given that they are separate from the storm sewers, I am rather surprised that there would be an unsealed manhole giving easy access. It just seems to me that some Public Works guy (or the Rac Conan equivalent) would have long since investigated the tunnels. Even if he didn't find anything, he would have done something to secure the opening to keep the kits out.

Or maybe I'm wrong, and the tunnels DO link up with the storm drains/sewer system.

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:29 pm

Well if it was unionized labor it would make sense.

Mad Mike · Post by **Mad Mike** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:35 pm

SolidusRaccoon wrote:Well if it was unionized labor it would make sense.

Yeah...heh.

My bet is that the bogeymen probably found a few breaches that led to the storm drains, and widened them into connecting passageways.